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NorKs delay military talks with U.N. Command on Cheonan
SEOUL, July 13 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has delayed military talks set for Tuesday with the U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC) to discuss the sinking of a South Korean warship that was blamed on the North, officials said.The talks had been scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, but the North's military "requested a delay in the planned colonel-level meetings with United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission representatives at Panmunjom for administrative reasons," the UNC said in a statement. A timetable for a new meeting wasn't immediately proposed, but it will be announced when that information becomes available, the statement said. An official at the UNC said he didn't have information on exactly why the North delayed the talks. Tuesday's meeting would come four days after the U.N. Security Council condemned the sinking, but didn't place direct blame on North Korea. North Korea originally rejected a UNC proposal to hold such military talks, but changed its stance on Friday, just ahead of the Security Council's statement on the sinking. Posted by: Steve White 2010-07-13 |
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